The thoughtful and expansive guitar wizard Steve Gunn clearly knows a ton about the history of folk music; it runs all through his music. But Gunn’s most formative influence wasn’t, say, John Fahey. It was the Smiths. In a new piece for the Aquarium Drunkard, Gunn writes about how much discovering the Smiths meant to him at a young age. And he also shares his murmuring, lo-fi covers of two Smiths classics, “This Night Has Opened My Eyes” and “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle.” Listen to both of them at the Aquarium Drunkard.